Organizational Design: Structure, Culture, And Control

Centralized

Mechanistic

Extremely tall

Extremely flat

the process of creating, implementing, and modifying the structure of an organization.

primarily focused on replacing a firm's competitive advantage with competitive parity.

a process that always functions independently of strategy formulation.

primarily focused on formulating effective strategies, not implementing them.

Jerry made many necessary changes to the company's organizational structure.

Jerry established a successful organizational structure and culture, but could not assert control.

Jerry's preference for obtaining consensus among his managers led to bickering and infighting.

Jerry focused most strategic changes on improving user experience and increasing advertising revenues.

Strategy implementation is less important than strategy formulation.

Strategy implementation transforms strategy into actions and business models.

Strategy always follows structure.

Strategy implementation does not affect resource allocation and power distribution within an organization.

Strategy implementation is considered unsuccessful if it requires changes within an organization.

To implement a strategy successfully, an organization's structure must be rigid.

Strategy implementation does not affect resource allocation and power distribution within an organization.

Organizational structure must follow strategy in order for firms to achieve superior performance.